Daughter always pulling at her hair!! Normal?

[Loubilouu]

Okay so my daughter is very nearly a year old. And recently she's been pulling her own hair a lot! When she's not doing anything she'll pull her hair, when she's upset she'll pull her hair... Basically when's she's got time she'll just pull at her hair. I try to make her stop by removing her hand, but she just gets grumpy and does it again. I then try and distract her from doing it, which also doesn't work!

Can anyone tell me if this is normall, or should I inform the midwife?

Midwife?

My friend's 2yo DD does this as a comfort thing. She is permanently twiddling a lock of hair on her forehead, and to fall asleep she twiddles her mum's hair in exactly the same way...

Maybe mention it at your next appointment, but imo there isn't much beyond distracting that you can do about it at that age. Is she hurting herself or pulling out lots of hair?

Could be just a phase!

If it is recent it doesn't sound like she has been doing it for long so probably too soon to seriously worry. They can have crazy little phases which seem a bit like mad behaviour to us, so not necessarily something to worry about.

But if it doesn't stop, techniques to help her occupy her hands another way may be worth looking into just to stop it developing into a deep habit.

If she wasn't so young I'd have thought it was anxiety but more likely to be a tactile-type thing, and hopefully/probably she'll grow out of it.